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No. 350,523. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

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ABRAM M. BODLEY, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALBERT W. STOQSMEISTER, OF SAME PLACE.

-BROOM-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,523, dated October 12, 1886.

Application filed December 6, 1884. Serial No. 1 49,679. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM M. BODLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ewport, Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Broom-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to holding devices for brooms and similarly-handled implements, and is designed to be used in the household for convenience of retention when not in use, and in stores and where the same are to be displayed for sale or exhibition.

It consists in a suitably-mounted holdingshelf having in its outer edge or edges one or -r 5 more curved recesses forming holding-pockets, across which elastic bands are maintained, by which the handle is retained in the recess by the displacement and elastic tension of the band and upheld by the frictional resistance of the band and recess-faces.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a simple broom-holder for domestic use; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same constructed for two brooms; Fig. 3, a front elevation, and Fig. 4 a plan of a portable holder for display or other uses.

The parts hereinafter mentioned are denoted in the drawings by suitable letters of reference.

In the drawings, A designates a horizontal shelf, which, in the illustrations given in Figs.- 1 and 2, is designed to be attached to and supported against a vertical wall, and provided with one or more o-val openings, 0, in the outer edge, each opening being formed with a curved retaining lip or shoulder, e. The opening is of suflicient width to admit the insertion ofthe handle of the broom or other implement to be supported. Across the opening at the upper side of the shelf is secured an elastic cord or band, 0, preferablyof rubber, upon holding-pins a.b, in such position as to cross the mouth of the opening, and also 5 the inner recess formed by the recurved lip e. The insertion of the handle H of the implement held vertically displaces the elastic band, which, when the handle is brought into the inner recess behind the-lip 6, acts by its elasticity to retain the handle securely therein, the friction of the rubber and the faces of the holding-recess serving to suspend the implement at any desired height without other support. p

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings my i-nven- 5 tion is shown embodied-in simple form in a shelf, A, constructed as an ordinary wallbracket, with a back piece, B, for securing the same to a wall. In Fig. 1 the shelf is provided with a single opening and in Fig. 2 6c with two openings; but it is obvious that the number of openings may be increased to any extent permitted by the size of the shelf, and that the openings may be thus arranged in a shelf of circular or semicircular form, as well as Mom of rectangular form. The openings may also be arranged right and left in rev lation to each other, as shown in Fig. 2, in which case a single holding-pin, a, may be used for two opposite holding-pins, 1;, arranged centrally upon the intervening'projection (I; and, if desired, a single band may be used extending around the central pin, a, and held upon the pins 1) at its ends,- or the central pin, a, may in such case be dispensed with and the band stretched directly between the opposite holding-pins b.

In Figs. 3 and 4 l have shown the shelf A as circular in form and provided with a continuous series of openings, 0, formed in the peripheral edge, and provided with the pins 00 b and the elastic bands 0, arranged in relation to the shelf and its openings as already described. In this case a central support, G, rising fromabase, B, is employed, upon which the shelf A is arranged to revolve, forming a display-rack for convenient use in stores and for exhibitlon purposes.

I claim as my invention 1. A holder for suspending handled impleo ments, consisting substantially of a horizontal overhanging shelf suitably supported, having in its outer edge one or more open recesses adapted toreceive the handles of the implements, combined with elastic bands or cords 5 held across the said recesses, whereby the insertion' of the handle displaces the band and 1 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 1 causes it to hold the handles in the recesses by h n in the presence of two subscribing witelastie tension, substantially as set forth. 888- 2. The improved display-holder for handled 5 implements, embodying the supporting-base ABRAM M- BODLEY- B, standard 0, and rotating shelf A, provided with recesses O and elastic bands 0, se Witnesses: cured across said openings, in combination, B. M. HOSEA, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. r L. M. HOSEA. 

